Web Developer

“If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.”
– Mason Cooley

I’ve been working on updating my resume recently to apply for some part-time or full-time web development positions with a local agency. While I love freelancing, there’s something special about having a core group of colleagues for support and creative collaboration. I thrive when given the opportunity to focus on the software. With that said, I’m extremely privileged to have been my own boss these past five months – it’ll be hard to give that up.

Working with a trusted friend, I’ve been revising my resume and trying to show my skills and experience in the most flattering way possible. Although my friend is extremely skilled, having personally helped hundreds of web developers get jobs in their field, I wanted to take the design and typography a step further than is possible with your typical Word ’97 document.

As I perused the Internet, gathering resume advice from hackers around the world, I came across the advice to generate my resume using LateX. I’ve used LateX in the distant past, but it was not a pleasant experience. Then I stumbled upon Mike White’s Markdown to LateX Resume Generator.

Comments

I agree Chris. I haven’t used Godaddy in a long time. I have been using 1and1.com for awhile. Ironically, now I am changing to hostgator soon. They are currently the most top rated host. I had no idea that they auto-renewed for Godaddy SSL certificates, I need to let some of my recent clients know that, I have referred a few to godaddy’s SSL system.

Thanks, Chris, this was helpful. The steps are a bit different as of 7/24/2011.

1. Login to GoDaddy
2. Click My Account on the top listing
3. Click “My Payment Information” on the left side nav bar
4. Click the small “View All Renewing Items” hyperlink on top of the grid of products that display on the next page
5. This brings up the page “Payment Profile” where all auto-renew items are listed
6. Click the “Auto” column header and look for any items turned “On”
7. Check the box next to any “On” items and click “Auto Renew ” at the top
8. On the right side of page, check “Disable Auto Renew” then “Save Changes”.

Before I found these instructions I went to what I thought wasthe obvious link “My Renewals” but this has NO SSL certificates listed. I assumed that they weren’t auto-renewing. Their 15 and 30 day reminder email messages make NO mention of auto-renew (unlike their domain renewals).

Suddenly we had our credit card hit. Not only do they auto-renew, they do it a month BEFORE the certificate is due to expire!!! I wouldn’t normally worry but this was a Wildcard certificate that cost $200. We had to drop it because we also found their claim of 99% compatibility to be untrue. I didn’t work on versions of Safari for the iPhone.

Definitely deceptive. I have a complaint in to them now. If they don’t resolve it I’ll have American Express reverse the charge